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More random 1915 notes
A 1915 book by the Okla Geological Survey includes plenty of non-geological info and pix. These caught my attention: 1. For some reason Cadillac decided to call its stupid rebadged Citation the Cimarron. I’ve always been puzzled by the choice. GM was aiming at Euro-inclined and Eco-inclined buyers, not Okies. The actual Cimarron is not…
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The magic lantern lasted longer…
Last year I delved into the intersection of science and entertainment in the 1850s, focusing on the Magic Lantern. = = = = = START PARTIAL REPRINT: I had thought the magic lantern was just a slide projector with light furnished by flame instead of electricity. The machine was partly similar, but the ACTUAL USE…
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Constants and Variables 170
Doggy logic: Every time I bark at the mailman he goes away, so my barking is responsible for keeping the house safe. I’m powerful! Human logic: We’ve been protesting every day for two years, and finally some of the torturers are going away. We’re powerful! The doggy logic is actually better, because it starts with…
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Still more Zenith musings
The Zenith memory pulled me back into those first few months after release from prison. I was appreciating freedom, but I was starting out on the wrong track AGAIN. What was the wrong track? COLLEGE, and especially college courses in physics and math. College drove me crazy, drove me into hopeless depression which led inevitably…
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Musing leads to reprint
Thinking again about the 1969 jail experience in previous item leads to this especially apropos reprint from 2019, before the “virus” holocaust. = = = = = START REPRINT: Listening to Tom Gresham’s gun talk show. Guns are definitely Not My Department, but Gresham is one of the few sources of plain common sense and…
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Zenith
I haven’t made any new graphics in MANY months. I used up my graphics gumption during 2020, in a frantic outpouring of science as entertainment to counterbalance the Nazi torturers misusing “science” as a god of genocide. During most of 2021 I was just weary, bombarded with especially awful weather along with the torture. 2022…
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The Kenny solution
The old Kenny Rogers song offers the solution for many problems. Holdem = stay in the game. Foldem = Pause and wait for next deal. Walkaway = leave the table. When you’re in a casino where all the dealers are known to be cheaters, you’ll never be able to out-cheat them. Leave. Find a different…
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Anechoic reprint
Time for a reprint from a few months ago. Not so much because the watchers are watching again; mostly because I’ve been impressed again by the ANTI-echo qualities of Youtube and Facebook’s “suggestions”. When I watch realistic economists like Patrick Boyle, Youtube insists on feeding me strict establishment economists like Friedman. When I watch realistic…
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Hi there, NSA!
Nice to know you’re watching. One long-standing oddity: For some reason 14:38 is the most common time for bots or watchers to “read” this blog. It’s not the only time, but it’s definitely overrepresented.
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Not a paradox
Another pithy paradox from Kirn: The tools and techniques of the new tyranny were devised and developed in the lab of freedom. They owe their very existence to the liberties they’re being deployed to end. Reap the harvest, burn the farm. Gain the education, destroy the school. This is madness absolute. And doomed. It’s not…
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The Brahmin solution
How do we prevent the next round of torture and genocide? We know that we’ll never get a Nuremberg, because there is no Allied side in this war. Tanzania and Florida aren’t big enough to win the war and hold the trial. The best counterforce, oddly enough, seems to be India. Not the government of…
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Maintaining the tradition
Another episode of the ’40s program Passing Parade offers another useful historical parallel. I wish more episodes had been preserved, but I have to thank the blessed preservers for the few we’ve got. This episode tells the story of Francois Villon. He was a vicious psychopath who used his tremendous creative skills to write poetry…
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Secession timeline 3
Now the leaders of the three maritime provinces have joined up with the prairie provinces and Quebec in opposing Trudeau’s martial law. Trudeau is ruling only Ontario, Newfoundland and BC. US equivalent is NY, Maine and Calif. = = = = = At this point it’s blazingly clear that the “pandemic” was scheduled as a…
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The one mistake
Passing Parade was a ’40s show along the same general lines as Hix and MacHarrie. Passing Parade dramatized a few incidents from the past, with a lesson for the present. This episode dramatizes a famous crime and detection that I’d never heard before. The lesson is highly unusual, running counter to the normal meritocratic idiocy.…
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Every fucking time 2
Kirn points out the obvious. Utopian schemes are never new, but their followers always believe they’re founding a glorious new dawn of perfect life and perfected humanity. They always fall into the same trap, losing their money and their time and sometimes their lives, while the founders abscond with the money. Every fucking time. You…
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